Daily Voting News For July 26, 2008

Daily Voting News For July 26,
2008

“On
June 26, 2008, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Senator
Robert Bennett (R-UT) introduced the Bipartisan Electronic
Voting Reform Act (S. 3212). The press release accompanying
the introduction of S. 3212 observes “the ability to
ensure there is an accurate, reliable and transparent method
for Americans to cast and count votes is fundamental to our
democratic process.” Unfortunately, S.3212 falls far short
of ensuring accuracy, reliability, and transparency in our
elections and is likely to do more harm than good.

“The
bill contains some generally commendable provisions relating
to election security (Section 4), voting system testing and
certification (Section 5), and ballot layout design (Section
10), but the positive aspects of these provisions are
outweighed by the problems created by many of the other
sections of this bill. Despite its worthy motivations, the
bill fails to carry out its objective.”

Thus begins the
review of S.3212 by VerifiedVoting. We agree with these
statements and the conclusions of VerifiedVoting. This bill
gets a hearing this Wed., 30 July in the Senate Committee on
Rules and Administration. It needs to be defeated....

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